A PDP model of

comprehension accounts for the concurrent use of top-down information about the

pronunciation and spelling of words as well as bottom-up knowledge about the

context and meaning of the word being understood.

A phenomenon in the

comprehension of sentences that the sequence of words tends to create in

listeners or readers a certain expectation about their meaning.

A

plausible model of speaker production or understanding could be worked out of the syntactic-based grammar.

D. McNeill claims that

semantic thought and syntactic thought collaborate to conceptualize

conversation.

According

to N.Chomsky’s Transformational-Generative Grammar, rules that provide the

basic constituent   structure of a

sentence are called

In Chomsky’s

terminology, the true process of speaker comprehension would begin with

something like Logical Form (LF) and end with the Phonetic Form (PF).

Researchers in the area

of language production propose that there are no actually any predictable

points or predictable patterns or structural boundaries for speech errors to

occur in language performance process.

A theory of   psychology  

which states that human behaviour can and should be studied in terms of

physical processes only.

Understanding language is influenced by

psycholinguistic variables.

Chomsky’s notion of autonomous syntax was

strongly attacked by a group of linguists calling themselves